Gerald Seymour

On the Mongolian steppes, a general in the People's Liberation Army stakes his career, and his life, on a GPS-free missile guidance system that will change the balance of power on the battlefield. In Bath, a young Chinese woman has secured the affections of a young brainiac working on that very problem. In Leamington Spa, a deep cover operative has...

‘Compelling . . . almost Dickensian’ Times ‘The best thriller writer in the world’ Daily Telegraph * Jonas Merrick - a legendary intelligence analyst for MI5 - has been banished to the Post Room of Thames House. There, he is expected to pass his remaining days before inevitable retirement. In a Russian gulag, an MI6 agent has developed an unlikely...

A The Times Best Novels Since 1945 One of the 100 best crime novels and thrillers written since 1945, as chosen by the Sunday Times A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of national outcry, ill-prepared and poorly briefed, undercover agent Harry Brown is sent into the heart of...

The Metropolitan Police have an unsolvable problem: Lachy Wilson is a ruthless and obscenely rich British drugs lord who has bought off dozens of their officers. Thanks to these informants, no one can lay a glove on Wilson, and he is considered 'untouchable'. Wilson is dreaming of one last, game-changing shipment of heroin into the UK. The Met turn to...

'Seymour produces the most intelligent writing in the thriller genre' Financial Times * He had been to the limit. Then they sent him further. Gary - 'Gaz' - Baldwin is a watcher, not a killer. Operating with a special forces unit deep in Syria, he is to sit in a hide, observe a village, report back and leave. But the...

'Compelling . . . almost Dickensian' Times 'The best thriller writer in the world' Daily Telegraph * Jonas Merrick - a legendary intelligence analyst for MI5 - has been banished to the Post Room of Thames House. There, he is expected to pass his remaining days before inevitable retirement. In a Russian gulag, an MI6 agent has developed an unlikely...

A masterly novel - The Sunday Times Strong echoes of George Smiley - Financial Times A novel of real quality. Top brass - The Times Thriller of the Month * Beware of Russians bearing gifts. Defectors are not always welcome. Is the information they bring worth the cost of protecting them for the rest of their lives? Is it even...

‘Compelling... almost Dickensian’ The Times ‘The best thriller writer in the world’ Daily Telegraph Jonas Merrick. At MI5 they call him 'the eternal flame', because he never goes out. Never goes undercover, or on surveillance, or kicking down doors. If he's studying a map, he's probably planning his caravan holiday. But what the hot-shots fail to notice in Jonas is...

Liverpool: a suburban crime family grips a whole city with fear. And their ambition reaches further still. Galicia: an entire community waits on the windswept edge of Europe for the delivery of four tonnes of cocaine, brought across the ocean in an almost unbelievable craft. London: Jonas Merrick, grey and quiet, alone in a small office, seems an unlikely character...

The Metropolitan Police have an unsolvable problem: 'Lachy' Wilson is a ruthless and obscenely rich British drugs lord who has bought off dozens of their officers. Thanks to these informants, no one can lay a glove on Wilson and he is considered 'untouchable'. Wilson is dreaming of one last, game-changing shipment of heroin into the UK. The Met turn to...

A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick! A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the trail is long cold, the killer gone to ground in Belfast, and they must resort to more unorthodox methods...